Are cucumbers a fruit or vegetable?

Because a fruit is technically the ripened ovary of a flower, it contains the seeds of the plant. Based on that definition, the University of Central Oklahoma considers a cucumber a fruit, even tho...
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Is a pea a fruit or a vegetable?

Botanists classify peas as fruits because they come from the ripened ovary of a flower. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Nix v. Hedden in 1893 that peas are vegetables because they are comm...
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